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Looking  Forward. 
I  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
$      June,  1921. 
Recognition  of  the  distinguished  services  of  Admiral  Braisted 
has  not  been  lacking.  Among  the  honors  accorded  him  are  the  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Laws  by  the  University  of  Michigan  and  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  and  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Science  by  North- 
western University.  He  is  President  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  of  the 
Government  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Regents  of  the  American  College  of  Surgeons,  a  Director  of  Colum- 
bia Hospital  in  Washington,  and  once  Vice-Chairman  of  the  War 
Relief  Board  of  the  American  Red  Cross.  During  the  war  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Central  and  Executive  Committee  of  that  body. 
He  is  President  of  the  National  Board  of  Medical  Examiners 
and  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  Southern 
Medical  Association,  the  American  Academy  of  Medicine,  and  many 
other  societies.  Dr.  Braisted  is  also  Chairman  of  the  Provisional 
Board  of  the  Gorgas  Memorial  Institute  begun  recently  at  Panama, 
a  great  institution  for  research  into  tropical  diseases  and  preventive 
medicine  for  the  welfare  of  the  entire  world. 
For  his  services  during  the  war  he  was  awarded  the  Distin- 
guished Service  Medal  of  the  Navy. 
EDITORIAL 
LOOKING  FORWARD. 
It  is  not  the  mystic  number  one  hundred,  or  the  recent  centen- 
nial celebration,  but  the  necessity  for  adjustment  to  present-day 
conditions,  that  has  brought  about  the  expansion  of  the  Philadel- 
phia College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science.  The  marvelous  progress  of 
science — the  advent  of  labor-saving  machinery,  to  which  is  due  the 
development  of  large  pharmaceutical  manufacturing  establishments — 
the  advances  in  medicine,  particularly  in  diagnosis,  calling  for  trained 
bacteriologists  and  clinical  chemists — all  these  have  trended  toward 
specialization  by  students  in  pharmacy,  and  opened  new  fields  of 
service  for  the  institution. 
To  be  sure,  the  founders  established  a  college  of  apothecaries. 
But  the  old-time  apothecary  is  no  more.  He  has  gone  the  way  of 
the  tallow  candle,  and  the  Franklin  stove.  His  place  has  been  taken 
by  the  modern  prescriptionist,  and  the  manufacturer  of  medicinal 
